New Features

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  • Ability to remove Featured Story status from Admin panel as well as retire a Featured Story. You can also now

    do this when editing a story.

  • Ability to edit and delete news comments from news archive page.

  • Time format in settings. Removed separate news date format.

  • Added pagination in news.php

  • Ability to set your own classifications in addition to warnings and genres (i.e. Spoilers, Episode Related,

    Pairings, Language, Story Length, Story Type)

  • Ability to add custom pages from the admin panel.

  • You can now customize the up and down arrows used throughout the script in the same way the other graphics

    (stars, etc) can be customized. The variables are $up and $down

  • Added pagination to individual series page.

  • Story counts are back. :)

  • Moved the javascript into header.php so no more problems with the formselect.js not regenerating. The info will

    get pulled each time the page loads.

  • Added Table of Contents link to the storyblock and viewstory page for stories.

  • Changed admin links for featured stories in story block to let you either remove or retire the feature.

  • Co-authors :) Yes. plural.

  • Chapter end notes.

  • Story notes.

  • The validation function in the admin panel now uses storyblock.php for a more consistent look of story information

    across the site.

  • When previewing a story in the the add/edit story functions, the script now uses storyblock.php for a more consistent

    look for story information across the site.

  • The default yes and no letters (subject and text) when validating stories can now be customized using {variables} for:

    {sitename}- the name of the site;

    {adminname} - the penname of the admin sending the letter (text of letter only)

    {rules} - a link to the submission rules (text of letter only)

    {storytitle} - the title of the story

    {chaptertitle} - the title of the chapter within the story

  • You can now add custom admin panels.

  • The main admin page will now tell you how many stories are in the validation queue. So does the info block.

  • Session and cookie variables will now use a sitekey so that multiple sites on the same domain won't have problems with crossed login info.

  • News comments are now saved under uid instead of penname so that changes in penname will carry over to comment info.

  • TinyMCE can now be toggled on/off on the page.

  • Members can now turn tinyMCE and story indexes on/off for themselves

  • Members can choose the default story sort for themselves.

  • Challenges have been made into an optional module you can install and uninstall as you choose

  • Admins can now decide whether or not to allow anonymous challenges

  • The number of responses to a challenge is now listed in the information for the challenge.

  • Maintenance mode.

  • Action log.

  • Stories updated within the time frame of your "recent days" setting will now also be marked as "New!" (you can also define your own text or assign a graphic using $new in variables.php)

  • You can now define what "Top 10's" lists to include and add your own through the admin panel.

  • You can now "hide" skins from regular members through the admin panel.

  • Customized fields in the author profile page.

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